Units can track individuals by cell phones, identify by guns, put in bull's-eye
A reporter from ABC News recently speculated that drones could become such a routine part of life in the United States that they would be the tool of choice to find lost dogs or cats.
Finding pets is not what’s worrying civil rights advocates and others who are paying attention to just what is being done now with drones.
They are alarmed by the idea that a drone could track you through your cell phone, identify you by the handgun you have in your pocket, pepper you with rubber bullets to intimidate you or just blast you off the face of the Earth with live ammunition.
It is for these reasons that Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and several others today staged a filibuster in the U.S. Senate against the nomination by Barack Obama of John Brennan, his national security adviser, to be director of the CIA.
It is under Brennan’s watch that Obama’s use of drones has mushroomed overseas, and individuals, including American citizens, have had a bull’s-eye painted on their back. Multitudes have been killed through the program.
Now, a part of the impetus for Paul’s filibuster was that Attorney General Eric Holder wrote under the Obama drone strategy it is not impossible that a drone attack would be ordered on a U.S. citizen on American soil.
On the Senate floor, Paul said, “If our country is a battlefield, if our country is a war zone, what is left? What are we fighting for it we are not going to fight for our rights at home?”
Drones long have played a major role for the U.S. in its Middle East conflicts. Run from computer centers in the
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